2012 Reads

A list of books I've read as I read them. 


January Reads

1. Susi Wyss - The Civilized World: A Novel in Stories
2. Aminatta Forna - The Memory of Love
3. Alaa al Aswany - The Yacoubian Building
4. Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
5. Tendai Huchu - The Hairdresser of Harare

February Reads

6. Ama Ata Aidoo (ed.) - African Love Stories - An Anthology 
7. Irene Sabatini - The Boy Next Door

March Reads

8. Tsitsi Dangarembga - Nervous Conditions
9. Chimeka Garricks - Tomorrow Died Yesterday
10. Bobo Omotayo - London Life, Lagos Living
11. Hisham Matar - Anatomy of a Disappearance
12. Buchi Emecheta - The Joys of Motherhood
13. Teju Cole - Every Day is for the Thief

April Reads

14. Sarah Ladipo Manyika - In Dependence
15. Chinua Achebe - No Longer at Ease
16. Yasmina Khadra - What the Day Owes the Night
17. Dayo Forster - Reading the Ceiling
18. Brian Chikwava - Harare North 

May Reads

19. Myne Whitman (ed.) - Naija Stories: Of Tears and Kisses, Heroes and Villains 
20. Jose Eduardo Agualusa - The Book of Chameleons
21. Christie Watson - Tiny Sunbirds Far Away

June Reads

22. Chibundu Onuzo - The Spider King's Daughter
23. Efioanwane Edem - Broken Portraits: Jonathan's Chronicles
24. Chika Unigwe - Night Dancer
25. Simi Bedford - Yoruba Girl Dancing

July Reads
26. Caine Prize - African Violet: Caine Prize for African Writing 2012
27. Chris Abani - Becoming Abigail
28. Sue Nyathi - The Polygamist

August Reads
29. Shubnum Khan - Onion Tears: A Novel
30. Alain Mabanckou - African Psycho
31. Alain Mabanckou - Broken Glass
32. Alain Mabanckou - Memoirs of a Porcupine

September Reads
33. Alain Mabanckou - Black Bazaar
34. Chinedu Achebe - Blunted on Reality

October Reads
35. Myne Whitman - A Heart to Mend
36. Abidemi Sanusi - Eyo: African Lolita
37. Chika Unigwe - The Phoenix
38. Nnedi Okorafor - Zahrah the Windseeker

November Reads
39. Ellen Banda-Aaku - Patchwork
40. Tina Okpara (with Cyril Guinet) - My Life Has a Price: A Memoir of Survival and Freedom 
41. Lutz van Dijk - Themba: A Boy Called Hope
42. Ivor Hartmann (ed) - AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers
43. Suzanne Ruta - To Algeria, with Love

December Reads
44. Noo Saro-Wiwa - Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria
45. Nii Ayikwei-Parkes - Tail of the Blue Bird
46. Tolulope Popoola - Nothing Comes Close
47. Eghosa Imasuen - Fine Boys
48. Ahmed Fagih - Homeless Rats